spoiler visualizarNoa 30/12/2020
The end is bad, and thats WHY it sucks
Very Unlikely for Art3mis to be ok with the bad of an ending the writers team came up with, seems like they didn't mind having the trouble of finding something more plausible for the characters personality that they themselves created.
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The girl that doesn't put the "full imersion VR headset" (AOI) beacause of ethical and phylosophical reasons, is the same girl that goes: "wow, awesome let's ressucitate the dead, and make a copy of everyones consciousness without their consent, seems ethical!". And she proceeded to go up to the male-main-character Parzival and say something like: "Hey, thanks for your stubborness, you were right all along, haha, i'm so silly, lets be together". C'MON GIRLLL. not a feminist move at all, but more important, SHE would not do that, BECAUSE of the way they constructed their character to be a badass independent person, not a silly love interest of the main character.
Seems like one more of those 'male writer' problem and "let's just wrap it up with a lovestory, everybody gets together, and everybody's happy in the end." trope. That is NOT how real life works.
By the way, we always look at the story by the optics of the male-main-character. So, do you guys remember whats the problematic in the 1955's, Vladimir Nobokov's book "Lolita"? We see the story by the eyes of the male-main-character, and thats why we kind of become their allys in the abusive and pedophilic relationship he builds with the underage girl. Cause we see the issue by his eyes, and it's human nature to empathize with the narrator, we see the problem he faces by his eyes, we think, we feel, and we problem solve the way he does. We only realize we were lead to be a part of a horrible and troubled relationship by the end of the book.
And thats why this book is so important historically, and an also a topic of study in psychology, antropology, and many other fields of human studies. It affected the way we view society, the way we protect children, the way we see pathologies, and made us aware of our own biases.
So, this is how you build a character to be a shit-ass person, and get away with it, seems familiar, Parzival?